Selwyn House School - Yearbook (Montreal, Quebec Canada)

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SELWYN HOVSE SCHOOL MAGAZINE Harding, Maxi Ferro, Colin Moseley, john Mulholland, Patrick Uoheny, Cole- man Landers. Murray Leiter, Ronald Graham, and David McMaster. Mr. Hartland Molson gave the interesting work entitled The Barley and the Stream . christopher Coristine presented a new and comprehensive work on the Navy. This will be most useful. Alec Miller gave an interesting new book called The Day Lincoln was Shot . Mr. Speirs donated The March of Democracy by james Truslow Adams. lt is a valuable history of the I'nited States, now out of print and difficult to obtain. Mr. Speirs also presented the 'Tomplete works of Robert Burns with his Life , which is most welcome in the Library. Some books of note acquired during the year are :- The Oxford junior lincyclopediau vol. xii: The Ascent of Everest by john Hunt: the Junior edition of the same: the Encyclopedia of Pictorial Knowledge in ten volumes: the International XYho's XYho : Fell's International Coin Book . Virculation of books amounted to 3,665 for the year ending March 31, 1055-an increase of about 30 2 over the previous year. Circulating Science books numbered 267: History 182: Nature 143: Geography 130: Biography 100. The remainder of the circulation was in Fiction, Younger Books and 'Things To IJo'. There was a marked increase in the circulation of picture books in Form D. Books catalogued to date number 3,652. DAY. . THE CHOIRS fhoir prizes last year were won by Bobby Aikman in the Senior Choir and by Tommy Gray in the Intermediate. Aikman sang Linden Lea by R. Vaughan XYilliams, and Gray XYhere'er You XYalk by Handel. Both boys are to be congratulated for their success against very keen competition. XYe were greatly indebted to Mrs. Tester. who very kindly judged the finals for us. At the Prizegiving on june Oth a choir of 36 voices picked from the Seniors and Intermediates gave its best performance yet in a two-part arrangement of L'All Through the Night, followed by XYhere'er You M'alk . This year the Senior, Intermediate and junior choirs reached their largest mernbersliip, and the Intermediate Fhoir in particular with -12 voices showed outstanding improvement. At the Christmas entertainment each choir sang a group of carols and among the large group of excellent soloists the following were adjudged the best and were awarded extra points for their houses: Aikman I, Barry, Steven, Smith, Tyrer, Manthorp and Roulson. A considerable number of new hymns has been learned since last Sep- tember, and the Choir now has a large repertoire lor all the seasons of the year. l his has provided a very welcome variety at the Morning Assembly. INTER ALIA We continue to hear from Miss Afra Snead, who lives in Hastings, Eng- land, but maintains a tremendous interest in Selwyn House, to which she l18l

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